A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'